Rebellion Festival Postponed Until 2022

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This time last year the organisers of Rebellion – the world’s largest punk festival – were forced to make the heart-breaking decision to cancel the four-day event due to the global pandemic. A year on and the dedicated Rebellion team are absolutely devastated to confirm that yet again, the hugely-anticipated event, due to take place this coming August 6th – 9th is no longer able to go ahead.

The festival was set to host legendary artists such as Circle Jerks, Bad Religion, The Undertones, Tom Robinson and Stiff Little Fingers, at The Winter Gardens in Blackpool.

Despite the intention, desire, and willingness of the festival, the venue, the bands, and local businesses for this year’s event to go ahead, it has become increasingly clear to the organisers that due to circumstances beyond the their control, it can’t. stating in the press release “With no clear guidelines from the government in terms of insurance, guarantees, policies on re-entry, testing and potential vaccine passports, the festival simply can’t go ahead.”

Rebellion has been open and transparent throughout this pandemic, and were hopeful (but cautious) about this year, however they required a few essential things to be confirmed for the event to go head. Unfortuently this have the left the festival feeling like they’ve been ‘Timed Out’. No one is saying that they CAN’T go ahead, but nothing is in place yet that means they CAN either. That is why the last few weeks have seen many independent festivals take the tough decision to cancel, including 2000 Trees last month.

All of this, combined with the ongoing global travel restrictions has left the festival unable to put on the event that they desire, and their audience expect. Around a third of the people that attend the festival are usually from overseas, and with no touring bands (many agents and bands from overseas having pulled out of their European tours and rescheduled them for 2022), it would simply not be the festival that Rebellion wanted to stage.

There’s still some good news however as the festival has been moved to 2022, with both 2020 and 2021 tickets being rolled over until the new date. For those who wish to recieve a refund, full details can be found on the festivals website. All day tickets will be refunded automatically.

Rebellion fest 2022 is set to take place on August 4th – 7th. Tickets for 2022 will go on sale on Monday August 9th.

The festival also have some exciting news, as the council have agreed for the festival to have the area of the promenade right in front of Blackpool Tower (Tower Headland, on the ‘comedy carpet’). This is an amazing space for an outdoor stage. A straight walk down from the Winter Gardens. Rebellion can double the capacity with this area and have some fantastic plans to make both sites amazing.